I wear my heart on my sleeve and I am pretty open about EVERYTHING but I’ve not really said much about this. The reason I gave up my dream job. You may have read or watched me talking about my career as a journalist… I started out as a bright young...

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…” If Aristotle said it, then it must be true. It’s something I’ve lived by anyway as it helps me to accept my high times when my creativity is going wild and I have all these life changing ideas as...

I haven’t written candidly about my mental health for a little while as my head feels too chaotic to be able to write about it. Before that I had also been feeling fairly content and on my “road to recovery.” But then it has shocked me. Shortly after filming that...

When I accidentally fell pregnant with my first child, I panic bought all the “pregnancy essentials,” or at least what I believed to be a necessity such as dummies, bottles and formula milk. Little did I know I was totally wasting my money but I had never...

There’s so much focus on your pregnancy – the scans, blood tests, ante-natal classes and there’s all the information on having a healthy pregnancy and planning for the birth. Then there’s the “what to pack in your hospital bag”...

My Dad Steve Slack works with a number of youngsters with mentally ill health and he has also helped to bring me up (and those of you who read my blogs know I have a plethora of mental health problems). Here are my Dad’s thoughts on mental health today: A...